'Blue Film' Review: Elliot Tuttle's Harrowing Drama About a Camboy Confronting His Abuser
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Ryan Lattanzio
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Summary
Elliot Tuttle's 'Blue Film' is a harrowing two-hander about a masculine camboy who is confronted by the pedophile teacher who abused him years earlier. Starring Reed Birney and Kieron Moore, the film was rejected by mainstream festivals before premiering at Edinburgh and NewFest. The review describes it as a taboo-busting, provocative study of unresolved childhood abuse that cuts close to the bone.
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· 3 pulledFew contemporary films about unresolved childhood abuse — which is always unresolved, in the end, anyway — cut as narrowly close to the bone as Elliot Tuttle's two-hander masked as provocation, 'Blue Film.'
Rejected by mainstream film festivals before it premiered in Edinburgh this summer and NewFest in New York in October, this taboo-busting study of a masculine camboy confronted by the pedophile teacher who many year...
Reed Birney and Kieron Moore give brave performances in Elliot Tuttle's harrowing 'Blue Film.'
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